I do hope that date has more substance to it than the ones they were posting for the release of S15 a few months ago!

I see G-PRPL has started operating now - not sure when it's first flight was but it is doing EXT-DUB at the moment

So at a time when Ryanair is attributing part of its impressive profit improvement to getting flights on sale earlier, Flybe decide that the opposite strategy is a good idea... Or more likely, are so busy fire fighting that they just haven't had time to do it yet.

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PL was doing a UK-France service yesterday. I think it was Bergerac.

G-PRPL has been online for a week now.

Ahh I see it was the first time I had seen it on FR24. Does anyone know if there are any differences in the cabin as someone told me these were the next gen models?

They are the NextGen models and do seem a little more modern in the cabin. They have the updated cabin including brighter LED lighting. There are pivoting overhead bins, which are smaller on the AB side for the first few rows.

195's
 

I notice today that there have been 5 195's flying - 2 ex-SOU (Sunshine routes), 1 ex-EXT (Sunshine routes), 1 ex-BHX (CDG) and 1 ex-CWL (to EDI, JER, then CDG and DUB, with a large period of downtime between the first 2 and last 2 return trips).

The 1 CWL-based machine positioned down from MAN last night.

Is 5 the max. that is going to be operated, or is there another 1 to be activated when the 2nd at CWL is needed?

E195 related. Are there any plans to repain them into the purple livery ?


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Re: 195's
 

Next E195 due to go to CWL in September. No there are NO plans to paint the E195's purple.

What is the downtime due to ?? Crewing hours ? Or another route that's due to come on-line ??

On a similar note, according to the BE seat selector a few of the routes ex CWL seem well loaded given the relatively short lead time on seat sales. Hopefully this continues !

CWL Fleet
 

Flybe’s new base at Cardiff Airport opens officially today (1 June 2015) with passengers boarding inaugural flights to Edinburgh, Paris and Dublin as part of an extended 12 route network that also includes new routes to Cork, Faro, Glasgow, Munich, and Milan.

As part of its new two aircraft base, Europe’s largest regional airline will also improve frequency and capacity on existing routes to Belfast City, Dusseldorf, Jersey and on its 2015-16 Winter flights to Geneva. The first of two 118-seat Embraer 195 aircraft jets into Cardiff today to begin operations, while the second will follow on 1 September 2015. The 10- year agreement between Flybe and Cardiff Airport brings half a million extra seats for sale each year and has created 50 new jobs, including flight crew

To update/pontificate my previous post above, today the CWL 195 is going to EDI, GLA, MXP and DUB, and there are less gaps, so maybe yesterday's was just because JER is obviously a short rotation compared to MXP and the schedule has to work around slot availability.

The a/c did look to be about 1hr delayed departing to CDG yesterday (despite over 3 hrs sat at CWL beforehand), with this delay also affecting the following DUB rotation.

So what now for the 195 disposal plans?

I would also like to know about the Republic aircraft... I'm hoping they still have the first class, I would have thought that it would make sense for them to offer first class service from London City but I doubt they will

Cardiff
 

10 year deal with Cardiff airport? Are they mad? Seriously, has this management heard about something called research? It would have taken one minion no more than an hour alone with Google to work out these airports are not only dead losses but send your airline to the wall. Madness:ugh:

Rivet joint
As usual, great to read your expert, well informed opinion. NOT:ugh:

Did they mot get stung operating in NWI and forced to operate phantom flights to boost numbers

Sorry, makes sense to offer first class on a domestic route?? Where in Europe do any domestic services offer first class?

Time for a reality check me thinks!